Not the time or the place: the missing spatio-temporal link in publicly available genetic data.

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dc.citation.issue15
dc.citation.volume24
dc.contributor.authorPope LC
dc.contributor.authorLiggins L
dc.contributor.authorKeyse J
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho SB
dc.contributor.authorRiginos C
dc.date.available2015-08-01
dc.date.available2015-05-22
dc.date.issued2015-08
dc.description.abstractGenetic data are being generated at unprecedented rates. Policies of many journals, institutions and funding bodies aim to ensure that these data are publicly archived so that published results are reproducible. Additionally, publicly archived data can be 'repurposed' to address new questions in the future. In 2011, along with other leading journals in ecology and evolution, Molecular Ecology implemented mandatory public data archiving (the Joint Data Archiving Policy). To evaluate the effect of this policy, we assessed the genetic, spatial and temporal data archived for 419 data sets from 289 articles in Molecular Ecology from 2009 to 2013. We then determined whether archived data could be used to reproduce analyses as presented in the manuscript. We found that the journal's mandatory archiving policy has had a substantial positive impact, increasing genetic data archiving from 49 (pre-2011) to 98% (2011-present). However, 31% of publicly archived genetic data sets could not be recreated based on information supplied in either the manuscript or public archives, with incomplete data or inconsistent codes linking genetic data and metadata as the primary reasons. While the majority of articles did provide some geographic information, 40% did not provide this information as geographic coordinates. Furthermore, a large proportion of articles did not contain any information regarding date of sampling (40%). Although the inclusion of spatio-temporal data does require an increase in effort, we argue that the enduring value of publicly accessible genetic data to the molecular ecology field is greatly compromised when such metadata are not archived alongside genetic data.
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dc.identifier.citationMOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 2015, 24 (15), pp. 3802 - 3809 (8)
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/mec.13254
dc.identifier.elements-id246058
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn0962-1083
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltd
dc.relation.isPartOfMOLECULAR ECOLOGY
dc.rights(c) The author/s CC BY-NC-ND
dc.subjectScience & Technology
dc.subjectLife Sciences & Biomedicine
dc.subjectBiochemistry & Molecular Biology
dc.subjectEcology
dc.subjectEvolutionary Biology
dc.subjectEnvironmental Sciences & Ecology
dc.subjectbiological ontology
dc.subjectdata accessibility
dc.subjectmetadata
dc.subjectreproducibility
dc.subjectreuse
dc.subjectstandards
dc.subjectMINIMUM INFORMATION
dc.subjectEVOLUTIONARY
dc.subjectMAP
dc.subject.anzsrc06 Biological Sciences
dc.titleNot the time or the place: the missing spatio-temporal link in publicly available genetic data.
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Sciences
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